Vapor (n.) To emit vapor or fumes.
Vapor (n.) To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
Vapor (v. t.) To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
Vaporability (n.) The quality or state of being vaporable.
Vaporable (a.) Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
Vaporate (v. i.) To emit vapor; to evaporate.
Vaporation (n.) The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
Vapored (a.) Wet with vapors; moist.
Vapored (a.) Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.
Vaporer (n.) One who vapors; a braggart.
Vaporiferous (a.) Conveying or producing vapor.
Vaporific (a.) Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
Vaporiform (a.) Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
Vaporimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
Vaporing (a.) Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.
Vaporish (a.) Full of vapors; vaporous.
Vaporish (a.) Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.
Vaporizable (a.) Capable of being vaporized into vapor.
Vaporization (n.) The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.
Vaporized (imp. & p. p.) of Vaporize
Vaporizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaporize
Vaporize (v. t.) To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Vaporize (v. i.) To pass off in vapor.
Vaporizer (n.) One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
Vaporose (a.) Full of vapor; vaporous.
Vaporous (a.) Having the form or nature of vapor.
Vaporous (a.) Full of vapors or exhalations.
Vaporous (a.) Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.
Vaporous (a.) Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.
Vaporousness (n.) The quality of being vaporous.
Vapory (a.) Full of vapors; vaporous.
Vapory (a.) Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
Vapulation (n.) The act of beating or whipping.
Vaquero (n.) One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman.
Vara (n.) A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
Varan (n.) The monitor. See Monitor, 3.
Varangian (n.) One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
Varanus (n.) A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.
Vare (n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice.
Vare (n.) A weasel.
Varec (n.) The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
Vari (n.) The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.
Variability (n.) The quality or state of being variable; variableness.
Variability (n.) The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function.
Variable (a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
Variable (a.) Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
Variable (n.) That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.
Variable (n.) A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.
Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
Variable (n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
Variableness (n.) The quality or state of being variable; variability.
Variably (adv.) In a variable manner.
Variance (n.) The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
Variance (n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
Variance (n.) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.
Variant (a.) Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.
Variant (a.) Changeable; changing; fickle.
Variant (n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.
Variate (v. t. & i.) To alter; to make different; to vary.
Variation (n.) The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
Variation (n.) Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.
Variation (n.) Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
Variation (n.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.
Variation (n.) One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.
Varicella (n.) Chicken pox.
Varices (n. pl.) See Varix.
Variciform (a.) Resembling a varix.
Varicocele (n.) A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; also, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum.
Varicose (a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.
Varicose (a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.
Varicosity (n.) The quality or state of being varicose.
Varicosity (n.) An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers.
Varicous (a.) Varicose.
Varied (a.) Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery.
Variegated (imp. & p. p.) of Variegate
Variegating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Variegate
Variegate (v. t.) To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.
Variegated (a.) Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers.
Variegation (n.) The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.
Varier (n.) A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety.
Varietal (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.
Varietas (n.) A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.
Varieties (pl. ) of Variety
Variety (n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
Variety (n.) That which is various.
Variety (n.) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
Variety (n.) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.
Variety (n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.
Variety (n.) In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
Variform (a.) Having different shapes or forms.
Variformed (a.) Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.
Varify (v. t.) To make different; to vary; to variegate.
Variola (n.) The smallpox.
Variolar (a.) Variolous.
Variolation (n.) Inoculation with smallpox.
Variolic (a.) Variolous.
Variolite (n.) A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.
Variolitic (a.) Thickly marked with small, round specks; spotted.
Variolitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, variolite.
Varioloid (a.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.